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Re: How to redirect messages in ~/.xsession-errors to a FIFO device?



On 2018-04-06 17:53, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 06, 2018 at 05:48:35PM +0200, Mikhail Morfikov wrote:
>> If I set $ERRFILE to the FIFO device, processing of the script will be stopped
>> in the point where "exec ..." appears (before sourcing the /etc/X11/Xsession.d/
>> dir).
> 
> You need to run something in the background which opens the FIFO for
> reading before you run foreground commands that try to open the FIFO
> for writing.
> 
> Typically you would create the FIFO, then launch the reader (logger)
> in the background, then carry on with opening FIFO writers.
> 
So basically, the systemd's solution (in the first message) is the only one that
will work OOTB without any other additional steps, right?


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